Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 20

But as the mice were going over, the straw slipped away and fell into the water, and the six mice all fell in and were drowned.

Who acts: mice, straw, six mice · What happens: go over, slip away, fall, fall in, drown · To what, where: water

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mice, straw, six mice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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